Neotamandua is an extinct genus of anteaters that lived in the Miocene to Pliocene in South America. Their fossils have been found in the Miocene Collón Cura Formation of Argentina, [2] the Honda Group at La Venta in Colombia and the Pliocene Araucano Formation in Argentina. [3] .

Neotamandua borealis is an extinct species of anteater. Fossils were found in the Honda Group at the Konzentrat-Lagerstätte of La Venta, Colombia. [1] It was suggested to be an ancestor of the giant anteater, and is also related to the tamanduas. …

2020年2月7日 · Neotamandua borealis is the only recorded extinct species from northern South America, specifically from the Middle Miocene of La Venta area, southwestern Colombia.

2020年2月7日 · Neotamandua borealis is the only recorded extinct species from northern South America, specifically from the Middle Miocene of La Venta area, southwestern Colombia. A new genus and species of myrmecophagid for La Venta, Gen. et sp. nov., is here described based on a new partial skull.

2019年10月7日 · The only record of a nominal extinct species for northern South America is Neotamandua borealis, from the Middle Miocene of La Venta area, southwestern Colombia (Hirschfeld 1976). A new genus and...

The name Neotamandua, literally meaning ‘new 256 tamandua’, was coined by Rovereto in allusion to the cranial similarity of the type species, 257 N. conspicua, with the extant genus Tamandua, rather than with Myrmecophaga. This 258 detail would be historically paradoxical, as will be shown below.

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Neotamandua is a genus of anteaters that lived in the Miocene to Pliocene in South America. Their fossils have been found in the La Venta fauna of Colombia and the Pliocene Araucano Formation in Argentina. Its closest living relatives are the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) and tamanduas (genus Tamandua).

Neotamandua is an extinct genus of anteaters that lived in the Miocene to Pliocene in South America.

Neotamandua es un género extinto de oso hormiguero que vivió entre el Mioceno al Plioceno en América del Sur. [2] [3] Sus fósiles se han hallado en el yacimiento de la La Venta en Colombia (N. borealis) y en la Formación Araucano en Argentina (N. conspicua). [4]